Anthologies

The Killing Rain, Hong Kong Noir, City Voices

Short Stories

Smash & Grab (in The Killing Rain) Ticket Home (in Hong Kong Noir) Lau the Tailor (in City Voices)

Topics

Public Speaking Details

Biography

Charles Philipp Martin grew up in New York City's Greenwich Village. His father was an opera conductor and both his parents well-known opera translators and librettists. After attending Columbia University and Manhattan School of Music, Martin took off for a six-year paid vacation in the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra. While in Hong Kong he hung up his bow and turned to writing, spending four years as a Sunday Magazine columnist for the South China Morning Post, and writing for magazines all over Southeast Asia. His weekly jazz radio show 3 O'Clock Jump was heard every Saturday on Hong Kong’s Radio 3 for some two decades. ?Neon Panic, a suspense novel which introduced Hong Kong policeman Inspector Herman Lok, was published in 2011. Rented Grave, the first in a new series featuring Inspector Herman Lok, arrives in August 2024. Martin now lives in Seattle with his wife Catherine.